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R. B. MEANY PACKING. APPLICATION FILEQ DEC: 7, 1 914.

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RICHARD B. MEANY, F WEEHAWKEN, NEW JERSEY, ASSIGNOR TO BEERLESS RUBBER MANUFACTURING COMPANY, A. CORPORATION OF NEW YORK.

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Application filed December 7,1914. Serial No. 875,929.

To all'wkomit may concern:

Be it known that I, RICHARD B. MEANY, a citizen of the United States, residing at Weehawken, county of Hudson, State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Packing, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact disclosure. Y

My invention relates to packings for me: chanical purposes, such as gaskets for use in joints which are subjected to high steam or other fluid pressure.

The object of my invention is to produce a gasket which not only. will be uninjured by high degrees of temperature and pressure, but which also will not be liable to be blown out by reason of pressure due to the fluid towhich a joint is subjected. 1

For a detail description of a preferred form of my invention, reference may be had to the following specification and to the accompanying drawings forming a part thereof, in which: I

Figure 1 1s a plan view of a cdmplete gasket showing a part cut away to lllus- 'with a vulcanizable compound of rubber.

Such a piece of fabric in theforin of a straight strip of the requisite length to form a complete gasket, first is folded longitudinally on two arallel lines which are approximately midway between the center and the outside edges, the folded-over portion, however, leaving a central portion where there is one thickness only and of a .width substantially equal to the circumference of.

the reinforcing member 4. The strip then a has its end cut oninclined lines to form the requisite joint at the meeting point about the gasket, as indicated at 2. The strip thus prepared is placed about the reinforcing member 4 which is preferably in the form of an endless wire of steel or any other suitablemetal. In this way the parallel doubled edges of the fabric are superposed one upon the other with the reinforcing member 1n the space between the foldedover edges, as clearly illustrated in Fig. 2.

The inclined joints where the ends of the fabric meet arepreferably covered by a piece of adhesive tape, as indicated at 5 in Fig. l. The gasket thus built up is placed in a suitable vulcanizer and then vulcanized in the usual way.

It is obvious that the shape of the asket or packing may be varied to suit di erent circumstances and different forms of joints to be filled with the gasket, the gasket being adapted, however, for use on manhole covers of boilers, or other similar tanks which conain liquid under high pressure and temperature.

1 am aware that it is not new to form a gasket by folding over the margin or edges to make a four-ply thickness of the gasket, but I do not broadly claim such a construction. However, I believe I' am the first to produce a packing or gasket in which the reinforcing member is located on the inner margin of the gasket so that any tendency to force the material of the gasket outward is prevented and the fabric or other material d under tension in a radialdirection' against the pressure of theinterior fluid. It will also be noted that b reason of the method of placin the rein orcing member in the central f0 ded-over portion of the gasket adjacent the ends of the folded-over margin, the said member is held firmly in position and does not materially thicken the gasket at the points where the reinforcing member is located.

Having thus described this form of my invention, what I claim and desire to protect by Letters Patent is: I

1. A packing. comprising a plurality of plies of flexible-material, a strip of flexible material forming the outer plies, and a narroW strand of stiff inelastic material located at one margin thereof within the central portion of said strip which is folded over said strand, the remainder of said plies being located laterally of said strand and between the two outer plies and forming the inner plies 0f the main portion of the packing.

2. A packing comprising four plies of flexible fibrous 'material, and a strand of stifl wire located at the middle of a strip of said material between two of the plies plies thereof, the edges'of said strip being thereof at one margin of the packing, the turned inward and abutting said strand beedges of two plies abutting said strand between said two outer plies, said plies and tween said two outer plies and forming the 'strand being vulcanized together. '6 inner. plies of the packing, and means for Signed at New York State of New York 1 securing said plies together. this 5thday of December, 1914.

' 3, A packing comprising four plies of a RICHARD B. MEANY. single strip of fabric impregnated with rub-- Witnesses: 7

her, and an endless wire strand located at EDW. W. VAILL,

10 the middle of said strip between two of the FRANCIS BOYLE. 

